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Herman the German

Enemy Alien U.S. Army Master Sergeant #10500000

By: Gerhard Neumann

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Herman the German

Enemy Alien U.S. Army Master Sergeant #10500000

By: Gerhard Neumann

Engineer, Gerhard Neumann (Herman the German) was an American war hero and an innovator in the field of aviation, who worked at General Electric for thirty-two years. Neumann developed the variable-stator jet engine for which he received eight patents.

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William Morrow

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0688016820

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Herman The German

Just Lucky I Guess

By: Gerhard Neumann

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Herman The German

Just Lucky I Guess

By: Gerhard Neumann

Set in towns along the Mississippi River, The Judge's Daughter is a mid-nineteenth century romance novel. Fanny Britton, headstrong but resilient is dominated by her widowed father, the Judge. To gain independence, she must marry and meets the "perfect" man, Joshua Devlin, who claims to read law. She is seduced and learns too late that he is a riverboat deckhand with ambition toward wealth operating gambling casinos. Now pregnant, she must marry him, satisfied she can coerce him into law. Judge Britton annuls their marriage. They remarry. Devlin wrongly believes Fanny's cousin, Alex, fathered her second child. He leaves, accepts money from her rival, BEATY, who becomes his casino business partner. He still loves Fanny and seeks solace in alcohol. The Judge attempts to have Devlin assassinated. Beaty saves him, ships another body, made unrecognizable, to Fanny as Devlin. Fanny, "a widow," is again dependent on the Judge. He is caught in bank fraud and flees with Fanny and her children. Devlin returns reformed and wealthy, locates Fanny and suspects the Judge is his assassin. Fanny protects her father. Devlin finally turns to a rich widow. Fanny then tries to win him back and at the same time save her father.

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141847925X

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Discrete Algebraic Methods

Arithmetic, Cryptography, Automata and Groups

By: Volker Diekert,Manfred Kufleitner,Gerhard Rosenberger,Ulrich Hertrampf

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Discrete Algebraic Methods

Arithmetic, Cryptography, Automata and Groups

By: Volker Diekert,Manfred Kufleitner,Gerhard Rosenberger,Ulrich Hertrampf

The idea behind this book is to provide the mathematical foundations for assessing modern developments in the Information Age. It deepens and complements the basic concepts, but it also considers instructive and more advanced topics. The treatise starts with a general chapter on algebraic structures; this part provides all the necessary knowledge for the rest of the book. The next chapter gives a concise overview of cryptography. Chapter 3 on number theoretic algorithms is important for developping cryptosystems, Chapter 4 presents the deterministic primality test of Agrawal, Kayal, and Saxena. The account to elliptic curves again focuses on cryptographic applications and algorithms. With combinatorics on words and automata theory, the reader is introduced to two areas of theoretical computer science where semigroups play a fundamental role.The last chapter is devoted to combinatorial group theory and its connections to automata. Contents: Algebraic structures Cryptography Number theoretic algorithms Polynomial time primality test Elliptic curves Combinatorics on words Automata Discrete infinite groups

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Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

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3110416328

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Foundation Models for Natural Language Processing

Pre-trained Language Models Integrating Media

By: Gerhard Paaß,Sven Giesselbach

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Foundation Models for Natural Language Processing

Pre-trained Language Models Integrating Media

By: Gerhard Paaß,Sven Giesselbach

This open access book provides a comprehensive overview of the state of the art in research and applications of Foundation Models and is intended for readers familiar with basic Natural Language Processing (NLP) concepts. Over the recent years, a revolutionary new paradigm has been developed for training models for NLP. These models are first pre-trained on large collections of text documents to acquire general syntactic knowledge and semantic information. Then, they are fine-tuned for specific tasks, which they can often solve with superhuman accuracy. When the models are large enough, they can be instructed by prompts to solve new tasks without any fine-tuning. Moreover, they can be applied to a wide range of different media and problem domains, ranging from image and video processing to robot control learning. Because they provide a blueprint for solving many tasks in artificial intelligence, they have been called Foundation Models. After a brief introduction to basic NLP models the main pre-trained language models BERT, GPT and sequence-to-sequence transformer are described, as well as the concepts of self-attention and context-sensitive embedding. Then, different approaches to improving these models are discussed, such as expanding the pre-training criteria, increasing the length of input texts, or including extra knowledge. An overview of the best-performing models for about twenty application areas is then presented, e.g., question answering, translation, story generation, dialog systems, generating images from text, etc. For each application area, the strengths and weaknesses of current models are discussed, and an outlook on further developments is given. In addition, links are provided to freely available program code. A concluding chapter summarizes the economic opportunities, mitigation of risks, and potential developments of AI.

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Springer Nature

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3031231902

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Entropy

By: Gerhard Keller

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Entropy

By: Gerhard Keller

The concept of entropy arose in the physical sciences during the nineteenth century, particularly in thermodynamics and statistical physics, as a measure of the equilibria and evolution of thermodynamic systems. Two main views developed: the macroscopic view formulated originally by Carnot, Clausius, Gibbs, Planck, and Caratheodory and the microscopic approach associated with Boltzmann and Maxwell. Since then both approaches have made possible deep insights into the nature and behavior of thermodynamic and other microscopically unpredictable processes. However, the mathematical tools used have later developed independently of their original physical background and have led to a plethora of methods and differing conventions. The aim of this book is to identify the unifying threads by providing surveys of the uses and concepts of entropy in diverse areas of mathematics and the physical sciences. Two major threads, emphasized throughout the book, are variational principles and Ljapunov functionals. The book starts by providing basic concepts and terminology, illustrated by examples from both the macroscopic and microscopic lines of thought. In-depth surveys covering the macroscopic, microscopic and probabilistic approaches follow. Part I gives a basic introduction from the views of thermodynamics and probability theory. Part II collects surveys that look at the macroscopic approach of continuum mechanics and physics. Part III deals with the microscopic approach exposing the role of entropy as a concept in probability theory, namely in the analysis of the large time behavior of stochastic processes and in the study of qualitative properties of models in statistical physics. Finally in Part IV applications in dynamical systems, ergodic and information theory are presented. The chapters were written to provide as cohesive an account as possible, making the book accessible to a wide range of graduate students and researchers. Any scientist dealing with systems that exhibit entropy will find the book an invaluable aid to their understanding.

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Princeton University Press

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0691113386

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9780691113388

Handbook of Computer Vision Algorithms in Image Algebra

By: Joseph N. Wilson,Gerhard X. Ritter

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Handbook of Computer Vision Algorithms in Image Algebra

By: Joseph N. Wilson,Gerhard X. Ritter

Image algebra is a comprehensive, unifying theory of image transformations, image analysis, and image understanding. In 1996, the bestselling first edition of the Handbook of Computer Vision Algorithms in Image Algebra introduced engineers, scientists, and students to this powerful tool, its basic concepts, and its use in the concise representation

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CRC Press

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1420042386

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The Elementary Theory of Groups

A Guide through the Proofs of the Tarski Conjectures

By: Benjamin Fine,Anthony Gaglione,Alexei Myasnikov,Gerhard Rosenberger,Dennis Spellman

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The Elementary Theory of Groups

A Guide through the Proofs of the Tarski Conjectures

By: Benjamin Fine,Anthony Gaglione,Alexei Myasnikov,Gerhard Rosenberger,Dennis Spellman

After being an open question for sixty years the Tarski conjecture was answered in the affirmative by Olga Kharlampovich and Alexei Myasnikov and independently by Zlil Sela. Both proofs involve long and complicated applications of algebraic geometry over free groups as well as an extension of methods to solve equations in free groups originally developed by Razborov. This book is an examination of the material on the general elementary theory of groups that is necessary to begin to understand the proofs. This material includes a complete exposition of the theory of fully residually free groups or limit groups as well a complete description of the algebraic geometry of free groups. Also included are introductory material on combinatorial and geometric group theory and first-order logic. There is then a short outline of the proof of the Tarski conjectures in the manner of Kharlampovich and Myasnikov.

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3110382571

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9783110382570

Topics in Infinite Group Theory

Nielsen Methods, Covering Spaces, and Hyperbolic Groups

By: Benjamin Fine,Anja Moldenhauer,Gerhard Rosenberger,Annika Schürenberg,Leonard Wienke

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Topics in Infinite Group Theory

Nielsen Methods, Covering Spaces, and Hyperbolic Groups

By: Benjamin Fine,Anja Moldenhauer,Gerhard Rosenberger,Annika Schürenberg,Leonard Wienke

This book gives an advanced overview of several topics in infinite group theory. It can also be considered as a rigorous introduction to combinatorial and geometric group theory. The philosophy of the book is to describe the interaction between these two important parts of infinite group theory. In this line of thought, several theorems are proved multiple times with different methods either purely combinatorial or purely geometric while others are shown by a combination of arguments from both perspectives. The first part of the book deals with Nielsen methods and introduces the reader to results and examples that are helpful to understand the following parts. The second part focuses on covering spaces and fundamental groups, including covering space proofs of group theoretic results. The third part deals with the theory of hyperbolic groups. The subjects are illustrated and described by prominent examples and an outlook on solved and unsolved problems. New edition now includes the topics on universal free groups, quasiconvex subgroups and hyperbolic groups, and also Stallings foldings and subgroups of free groups. New results on groups of F-types are added.

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311134018X

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Algebraic Generalizations of Discrete Groups

A Path to Combinatorial Group Theory Through One-Relator Products

By: Benjamin Fine,Gerhard Rosenberger

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Algebraic Generalizations of Discrete Groups

A Path to Combinatorial Group Theory Through One-Relator Products

By: Benjamin Fine,Gerhard Rosenberger

A survey of one-relator products of cyclics or groups with a single defining relation, extending the algebraic study of Fuchsian groups to the more general context of one-relator products and related group theoretical considerations. It provides a self-contained account of certain natural generalizations of discrete groups.

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0824703197

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Quantum Cybernetics

Toward a Unification of Relativity and Quantum Theory via Circularly Causal Modeling

By: Gerhard Grössing

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Quantum Cybernetics

Toward a Unification of Relativity and Quantum Theory via Circularly Causal Modeling

By: Gerhard Grössing

Written for non-specialists, this book discusses the apparent conflict between relativity and quantum mechanics. The author proposes a resolution based on a causal interpretation introduced by Louis deBroglie and elaborated by David Bohm. He shows that a "medium" or "aether" may be introduced in a manner consistent with both relativity and quantum theory, and which allows the two theories to be unified via the identification of circularly causal processes at their core. While several crucial experiments are discussed in detail, the mathematics is kept simple, making the discussion accessible to a wide audience.

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1461212960

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Time Pioneers

Flexible Working Time and New Lifestyles

By: Karl H. Hörning,Anette Gerhard,Matthias Michailow

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Time Pioneers

Flexible Working Time and New Lifestyles

By: Karl H. Hörning,Anette Gerhard,Matthias Michailow

In this book the authors examine the relations between work and time and explore the possibilities of developing new and more flexible working patterns.

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John Wiley & Sons

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0745692419

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The Price of German Unity

Reunification and the Crisis of the Welfare State

By: Gerhard A. Ritter

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The Price of German Unity

Reunification and the Crisis of the Welfare State

By: Gerhard A. Ritter

The first full-scale analysis of the history of German reunification, with a particular emphasis on social policy, showing how the transfer of the West German social policy framework to the East intensified the crisis of the German welfare state.

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Oxford University Press

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0199556822

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9780199556823

Parallel Multilevel Methods

Adaptive Mesh Refinement and Loadbalancing

By: Gerhard Zumbusch

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Parallel Multilevel Methods

Adaptive Mesh Refinement and Loadbalancing

By: Gerhard Zumbusch

Main aspects of the efficient treatment of partial differential equations are discretisation, multilevel/multigrid solution and parallelisation. These distinct topics are covered from the historical background to modern developments. It is demonstrated how the ingredients can be put together to give an adaptive and parallel multilevel approach for the solution of elliptic boundary value problems. Error estimators and adaptive grid refinement techniques for ordinary and for sparse grid discretisations are presented. Different types of additive and multiplicative multilevel solvers are discussed with respect to parallel implementation and application to adaptive refined grids. Efficiency issues are treated both for the sequential multilevel methods and for the parallel version by hash table storage techniques. Finally, space-filling curve enumeration for parallel load balancing and processor cache efficiency are discussed.

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3322800636

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Jung and Steiner

The Birth of a New Psychology

By: Gerhard Wehr

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Jung and Steiner

The Birth of a New Psychology

By: Gerhard Wehr

All descriptions of the past are in the present; therefore, history tells our descendants more about us than it does about the imaginary creatures we like to call our ancestors.... All of which is only another way of saying that the past and the future do not exist; nevertheless, we need these narrative fictions, for we gain knowledge by looking backward at patterns and forward in anticipation of the results of our actions." --William Irwin Thompson With the threat of global climate change, a looming mass extinction of species, and increasingly complex and volatile geopolitical relations, the entire Earth Community has entered a most critical phase of what the author describes as the "Planetary Era." This era began some five hundred years ago with the conquest of the Americas and the Copernican revolution in cosmology, but it is just now becoming a defining feature of human consciousness on a global scale. How did the Planetary Era come about, and why was it initiated in the European West? What elements in the evolution of the Western worldview might contribute to the actualization of a sustainable planetary culture? Drawing from a wide range of panoptic, or "big-picture," thinkers--from Hegel, Teilhard, Jaspers, and Campbell, to Ken Wilber, Richard Tarnas, and Edgar Morin, among others--the author answers such questions and presents his own synthetic theory of the evolution of consciousness, leading to the birth and transformation of the Planetary Era. Beginning with a consideration of the fundamental pattern of world history, Sean Kelly reveals the role of a "Great Code" and the turning of a tightening spiral in the evolution of the past two millennia of Western--and increasingly, planetary--consciousness. Along with a vision of the path that has lead to our vexed and complex present, the author offers reason to hope that we are on the threshold of a new countercultural resurgence--a new planetary wisdom culture--that could signal the homecoming for which our troubled world so desperately longs.

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0880109254

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European Dictatorships

A Comparative History of the Twentieth Century

By: Gerhard Besier,Katarzyna Stokłosa

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European Dictatorships

A Comparative History of the Twentieth Century

By: Gerhard Besier,Katarzyna Stokłosa

How could it happen that continental Europe became a “Europe of the Dictatorships“ in the twentieth century? It requires some effort to understand such processes. It is insufficient to observe merely the dictatorships and their mechanisms, one must also incorporate the seemingly harmless history leading up to that time and, above all, the transitions that took place. The book begins with a description of the historical situation after the First World War. Europe’s brutalization through colonial wars and inter-European conflicts, carried out using means of mass extermination, led to fractures in civilized cultures. What follows in the second section is another state-by-state organized design of the transition from countries that were fascist (and countries that were made fascist) into communist states established in accordance with the Soviet model. The third part of the book is devoted to the history of the “Eastern Bloc” states from 1953 to 2013.

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Cambridge Scholars Publishing

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1443855219

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9781443855211

Aspects of Infinite Groups

A Festschrift in Honor of Anthony Gaglione

By: Benjamin Fine,Gerhard Rosenberger,Dennis Spellman

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Aspects of Infinite Groups

A Festschrift in Honor of Anthony Gaglione

By: Benjamin Fine,Gerhard Rosenberger,Dennis Spellman

This book is a festschrift in honor of Professor Anthony Gaglione's sixtieth birthday. This volume presents an excellent mix of research and expository articles on various aspects of infinite group theory. The papers give a broad overview of present research in infinite group theory in general, and combinatorial group theory and non-Abelian group-based cryptography in particular. They also pinpoint the interactions between combinatorial group theory and mathematical logic, especially model theory.

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World Scientific

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9812793402

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Gendering citizenship in Western Europe

New challenges for citizenship research in a cross-national context

By: Ruth Lister,Fiona Williams,Anneli Anttonen,Jet Bussemaker,Ute Gerhard,Jacqueline Heinen,Stina Johansson,Arnlaug Leira,Birte Siim,Constanza Tobio,with,Anna Gavanas

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Gendering citizenship in Western Europe

New challenges for citizenship research in a cross-national context

By: Ruth Lister,Fiona Williams,Anneli Anttonen,Jet Bussemaker,Ute Gerhard,Jacqueline Heinen,Stina Johansson,Arnlaug Leira,Birte Siim,Constanza Tobio,with,Anna Gavanas

This is a collectively written, inter-disciplinary, thematic cross-national study which combines conceptual, theoretical, empirical and policy material in an ambitious and innovative way to explore a key concept in contemporary European political, policy and academic debates. The first part of the book clarifies the various ways that the concept of citizenship has developed historically and is understood today in a range of Western European welfare states. It elaborates on the contemporary framing of debates and struggles around citizenship. This provides a framework for three policy studies, looking at: migration and multiculturalism; the care of young children; and home-based childcare and transnational dynamics. The book is unusual in weaving together the topics of migration and childcare and in studying these issues together within a gendered citizenship framework. It also demonstrates the value of a multi-level conceptualisation of citizenship, stretching from the domestic sphere through the national and European levels to the global. The book is aimed at students of social policy, sociology, European studies, women's studies and politics and at researchers/scholars/policy analysts in the areas of citizenship, gender, welfare states and migration.

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Policy Press

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1847422373

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Integrated Ring Resonators

A Compendium

By: Dominik Gerhard Rabus,Cinzia Sada

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Integrated Ring Resonators

A Compendium

By: Dominik Gerhard Rabus,Cinzia Sada

The optical filter is resonator based. The required passband shape of ring resonator-filters can be custom designed by the use of configurations of various ring coupled resonators. This book describes the current state-of-the-art on these devices. It provides an in-depth knowledge of the simulation, fabrication and characterization of ring resonators for use as example filters, lasers, sensors.

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Springer Nature

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3030601315

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Handbook of Mathematics

By: I.N. Bronshtein,K.A. Semendyayev,Gerhard Musiol,Heiner Mühlig

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Handbook of Mathematics

By: I.N. Bronshtein,K.A. Semendyayev,Gerhard Musiol,Heiner Mühlig

This guide book to mathematics contains in handbook form the fundamental working knowledge of mathematics which is needed as an everyday guide for working scientists and engineers, as well as for students. Easy to understand, and convenient to use, this guide book gives concisely the information necessary to evaluate most problems which occur in concrete applications. For the 4th edition, the concept of the book has been completely re-arranged. The new emphasis is on those fields of mathematics that became more important for the formulation and modeling of technical and natural processes, namely Numerical Mathematics, Probability Theory and Statistics, as well as Information Processing.

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3662053829

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Second Order Differential Equations

Special Functions and Their Classification

By: Gerhard Kristensson

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Second Order Differential Equations

Special Functions and Their Classification

By: Gerhard Kristensson

Second Order Differential Equations presents a classical piece of theory concerning hypergeometric special functions as solutions of second-order linear differential equations. The theory is presented in an entirely self-contained way, starting with an introduction of the solution of the second-order differential equations and then focusingon the systematic treatment and classification of these solutions. Each chapter contains a set of problems which help reinforce the theory. Some of the preliminaries are covered in appendices at the end of the book, one of which provides an introduction to Poincaré-Perron theory, and the appendix also contains a new way of analyzing the asymptomatic behavior of solutions of differential equations. This textbook is appropriate for advanced undergraduate and graduate students in Mathematics, Physics, and Engineering interested in Ordinary and Partial Differntial Equations. A solutions manual is available online.

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1441970207

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Vertical Cooperative Advertising in Supply Chain Management

A Game-Theoretic Analysis

By: Gerhard Aust

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Vertical Cooperative Advertising in Supply Chain Management

A Game-Theoretic Analysis

By: Gerhard Aust

In this book methods from Operations Research and Game Theory are used to determine companies’ profit-maximizing strategies related to pricing and (cooperative) advertising. It considers different supply chain structures as well as various distributions of power, making it possible to analyze both inter-echelon and intra-echelon dependencies between the companies’ decisions. Additionally, an approach based on fuzzy set theory is presented in order to compensate for incomplete or missing data on market characteristics. Vertical cooperative advertising is an essential element of partnerships between manufacturers and retailers, allowing manufacturers to financially support their retailers’ advertising efforts so as to increase sales for the entire supply chain. Given that such programs not only make up a considerable part of many companies’ advertising budgets, but are also a controversial subject in many business relations, their correct design is of particular importance.

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3319116266

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How Socialist East Germany's Elite Turned Capitalist

By: Gerhard Schnehen

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How Socialist East Germany's Elite Turned Capitalist

By: Gerhard Schnehen

When East and West Germany re-united, the world was amazed — but this great moment should have been foreseen. East Germany, the GDR, was not transformed by a counterrevolution from the outside; the leadership was always capitalist at heart. The author shows how they were undermining the socialist foundations even in the 1950s, as soon as Stalin died. Gerhard Schnehen leads us through the historic events that led to the formation of the German Democratic Republic, GDR. He documents what others have left out of the story, explaining the underlying causes why the supposedly 'Communist' part of Germany collapsed in 1989, to be completely integrated into the capitalist Federal Republic of Germany. The reunited and imperialist Germany today is the dominant force in the European Union and the main ally of US imperialism, globalism and neoliberalism. With the rise to power of the Khrushchev clique, the GDR also changed colors. Guided by Khrushchev and his group, they introduced economic reforms leading to the restoration of a type of capitalism in the country where the profit principle was reinstated as the main regulator of social production. This in turn caused numerous and chronic crises in the country which in the West were then happily attributed to socialism or communism as a whole, inviting attacks on 'a system that cannot work.' However, such commentators completely ignore and do not want to discuss the fact that GDR’s 'socialism' was brought down very early, in the early sixties, by leading officials of the ruling party themselves, who introduced a whole series of capitalist 'reforms' in order to 'modernize socialism' and to make it 'more effective' (as the Ulbricht reformers put it). These so-called reforms are analyzed here at length, illustrating how they did away with socialist principles and restored capitalist principles into the economy in a way that made the country prone to the chronic crises typical of capitalism. This then led to a substantial part of the dissatisfied population turning away from socialism, the 'socialist' state and the SED ruling party, and looking toward West Germany for a better lifestyle. In late 1989, the GDR imploded and within months it was swallowed up by West German banks and corporations.

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Algora Publishing

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1628944455

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Algorithmic Composition

Paradigms of Automated Music Generation

By: Gerhard Nierhaus

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Algorithmic Composition

Paradigms of Automated Music Generation

By: Gerhard Nierhaus

Algorithmic composition – composing by means of formalizable methods – has a century old tradition not only in occidental music history. This is the first book to provide a detailed overview of prominent procedures of algorithmic composition in a pragmatic way rather than by treating formalizable aspects in single works. In addition to an historic overview, each chapter presents a specific class of algorithm in a compositional context by providing a general introduction to its development and theoretical basis and describes different musical applications. Each chapter outlines the strengths, weaknesses and possible aesthetical implications resulting from the application of the treated approaches. Topics covered are: markov models, generative grammars, transition networks, chaos and self-similarity, genetic algorithms, cellular automata, neural networks and artificial intelligence are covered. The comprehensive bibliography makes this work ideal for the musician and the researcher alike.

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3211755403

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Essentials of Gestalt Theoretical Psychotherapy

By: Doris Beneder,Angeiika Böhm,Thomas Fuchs,Bernadette Lindorfer,Edward S. Ragsdale,Gerhard Stemberger,Katharina Sternek,Elena Trombini,Andrzej Zuczkowski,Giancarlo Trombini

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Essentials of Gestalt Theoretical Psychotherapy

By: Doris Beneder,Angeiika Böhm,Thomas Fuchs,Bernadette Lindorfer,Edward S. Ragsdale,Gerhard Stemberger,Katharina Sternek,Elena Trombini,Andrzej Zuczkowski,Giancarlo Trombini

The Essentials of Gestalt Theoretical Psychotherapy offer for the first time in English an insight into the guiding ideas of this integrative psychotherapy method, which is consistently anchored in Gestalt psychology (and in this respect also differs substantially from most streams of Gestalt therapy, with which it should not be confused). The anthology includes ten contributions by authors from Austria, Italy, Germany and the USA. These deal with fundamental questions and concepts of any psychotherapy: The role and meaning of consistency in practical life and in psychotherapy; the question of human epistemic possibilities and an epistemology appropriate for psychotherapy; the personality theory of Gestalt Theoretical Psychotherapy; the basic principles of therapeutic relationship and practice; the role of emotions in the example of phenomenal causality of feelings; the task of diagnostics in Gestalt Theoretical Psychotherapy; a clinical example related to anorexia; Gestalt psychological viewpoints for therapy progress; the role of relational determination in intrapsychic and interpersonal experience.

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3756287335

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Computational Electronics

Semiclassical and Quantum Device Modeling and Simulation

By: Dragica Vasileska,Stephen M. Goodnick,Gerhard Klimeck

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Computational Electronics

Semiclassical and Quantum Device Modeling and Simulation

By: Dragica Vasileska,Stephen M. Goodnick,Gerhard Klimeck

Starting with the simplest semiclassical approaches and ending with the description of complex fully quantum-mechanical methods for quantum transport analysis of state-of-the-art devices, Computational Electronics: Semiclassical and Quantum Device Modeling and Simulation provides a comprehensive overview of the essential techniques and methods for effectively analyzing transport in semiconductor devices. With the transistor reaching its limits and new device designs and paradigms of operation being explored, this timely resource delivers the simulation methods needed to properly model state-of-the-art nanoscale devices. The first part examines semiclassical transport methods, including drift-diffusion, hydrodynamic, and Monte Carlo methods for solving the Boltzmann transport equation. Details regarding numerical implementation and sample codes are provided as templates for sophisticated simulation software. The second part introduces the density gradient method, quantum hydrodynamics, and the concept of effective potentials used to account for quantum-mechanical space quantization effects in particle-based simulators. Highlighting the need for quantum transport approaches, it describes various quantum effects that appear in current and future devices being mass-produced or fabricated as a proof of concept. In this context, it introduces the concept of effective potential used to approximately include quantum-mechanical space-quantization effects within the semiclassical particle-based device simulation scheme. Addressing the practical aspects of computational electronics, this authoritative resource concludes by addressing some of the open questions related to quantum transport not covered in most books. Complete with self-study problems and numerous examples throughout, this book supplies readers with the practical understanding required to create their own simulators.

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Walter Benjamin and the Corpus of Autobiography

By: Gerhard Richter

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By: Gerhard Richter

Walter Benjamin and the Corpus of Autobiography is not merely the most extensive and insightful treatment of Benjamin 's autobiographical writings.

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Law Among Nations

An Introduction to Public International Law

By: Gerhard von Glahn,James Larry Taulbee

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Law Among Nations

An Introduction to Public International Law

By: Gerhard von Glahn,James Larry Taulbee

Offering a more accessible alternative to casebooks and historical commentaries, Law Among Nations explains issues of international law by tracing the field's development and stressing key principles and processes. This comprehensive text eliminates the need for multiple books by combining discussions of theory and state practice with excerpts from landmark cases. Renowned for its rigorous approach and clear explanations, Law Among Nations remains the gold standard for undergraduate introductions to international law. Learning Goals Trace the development of International Law through key principles and processes. Illustrate important issues and theories using excerpts from landmark cases.

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A World at Arms

A Global History of World War II

By: Gerhard L. Weinberg

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A World at Arms

A Global History of World War II

By: Gerhard L. Weinberg

In a new edition featuring a new preface, A World of Arms remains a classic of global history. Widely hailed as a masterpiece, this volume remains the first history of World War II to provide a truly global account of the war that encompassed six continents. Starting with the changes that restructured Europe and its colonies following the First World War, Gerhard Weinberg sheds new light on every aspect of World War II. Actions of the Axis, the Allies, and the Neutrals are covered in every theater of the war. More importantly, the global nature of the war is examined, with new insights into how events in one corner of the world helped affect events in often distant areas.

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Biological Atlas of Aquatic Insects

With a foreword by Vincent H. Resh

By: Wilfried Wichard,Werner Arens,Gerhard Eisenbeis

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Biological Atlas of Aquatic Insects

With a foreword by Vincent H. Resh

By: Wilfried Wichard,Werner Arens,Gerhard Eisenbeis

A completely updated and translated edition of the author's famous book Atlas zur Biologie der Wasserinsekten. br/> This comprehensive work gives a vivid overview of the numerous adaptations of aquatic insects to life in an aquatic environment. 148 picture plates show more than 900 scanning electron microscope photographs with magnifications from 2.5 to 12,000 times natural size. Besides the habitus, they depict the wealth of morphological structures on the body surfaces. Explanatory texts as well as more than 150 additional line drawings, graphs and diagrams accompany each picture plate on its opposite page. In order to create an overview, on which the readers can orient themselves, a broad spectrum of all insect orders that include aquatic and semiaquatic insects has been chosen: Collembola, Ephemeroptera, Odonata, Plecoptera, Heteroptera (Nepomorpha, Gerromorpha), Megaloptera, Planipennia, Coleoptera, Hymenoptera, Trichoptera, Lepidoptera, Diptera (Tipulidae, Limoniidae, Blephariceridae, Deuterophlebiidae, Psychodidae, Ptychopteridae, Dixidae, Chaoboridae, Culicidae, Simuliidae, Chironomidae, Ceratopogonidae, Stratiomyidae, Athericidae, Tabanidae, Syrphidae, Ephydridae, Muscidae). The book includes aquatic insects from all continents and from a wide variety of aquatic habitats. The Biological Atlas of Aquatic Insects was inspired by the fascinating variety of aquatic insects and their diverse adaptations to a life in the aquatic environment. Underlying the diversity of life histories and differing life forms (burrowers, climbers, sprawlers, clingers, and swimmers) and the adaptations of mouthparts and feeding behaviour to the trophic systems (shredders, collectors, scrapers, piercers, predators, and parasites) are the necessary physiological mechanisms that make it possible for the insects to ecologically adapt to an aquatic mode of life. The central themes of the book, the basic functions of an aquatic mode of life, respiration and osmoregulation, have been described for all of the insect groups. Without these basic functions life in fresh water would not be possible. They are important physiological components and play a significant role in answering the question: What makes originally land dwelling insects turn into aquatic insects? The Biological Atlas of Aquatic Insects is intended for both professional and amateur entomologists working with aquatic insects as well as for students of biology and limnology and should reveal to them the fully adapted aquatic insects, which participate in freshwater ecosystems. The Biological Atlas of Aquatic Insects has already had some fine reviews in entomological journals.

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Solving Ordinary Differential Equations II

Stiff and Differential-Algebraic Problems

By: Ernst Hairer,Syvert Paul Nørsett,Gerhard Wanner

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Solving Ordinary Differential Equations II

Stiff and Differential-Algebraic Problems

By: Ernst Hairer,Syvert Paul Nørsett,Gerhard Wanner

The subject of this book is the solution of stiff differential equations and of differential-algebraic systems. This second edition contains new material including new numerical tests, recent progress in numerical differential-algebraic equations, and improved FORTRAN codes. From the reviews: "A superb book...Throughout, illuminating graphics, sketches and quotes from papers of researchers in the field add an element of easy informality and motivate the text." --MATHEMATICS TODAY

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Abstract Algebra

With Applications to Galois Theory, Algebraic Geometry, Representation Theory and Cryptography

By: Gerhard Rosenberger,Annika Schürenberg,Leonard Wienke

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Abstract Algebra

With Applications to Galois Theory, Algebraic Geometry, Representation Theory and Cryptography

By: Gerhard Rosenberger,Annika Schürenberg,Leonard Wienke

Abstract algebra is the study of algebraic structures like groups, rings and fields. This book provides an account of the theoretical foundations including applications to Galois Theory, Algebraic Geometry and Representation Theory. It implements the pedagogic approach to conveying algebra from the perspective of rings. The 3rd edition provides a revised and extended versions of the chapters on Algebraic Cryptography and Geometric Group Theory.

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Structural Aspects Of Quantum Field Theory And Noncommutative Geometry (Second Edition) (In 2 Volumes)

By: Gerhard Grensing

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Structural Aspects Of Quantum Field Theory And Noncommutative Geometry (Second Edition) (In 2 Volumes)

By: Gerhard Grensing

The book is devoted to the subject of quantum field theory. It is divided into two volumes. The first volume can serve as a textbook on main techniques and results of quantum field theory, while the second treats more recent developments, in particular the subject of quantum groups and noncommutative geometry, and their interrelation.The second edition is extended by additional material, mostly concerning the impact of noncommutative geometry on theories beyond the standard model of particle physics, especially the possible role of torsion in the context of the dark matter problem. Furthermore, the text includes a discussion of the Randall-Sundrum model and the Seiberg-Witten equations.

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HPI Future SOC Lab : proceedings 2011

By: Meinel, Christoph,Polze, Andreas,Oswald, Gerhard,Strotmann, Rolf,Seibold, Ulrich,D'Errico, Doc

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HPI Future SOC Lab : proceedings 2011

By: Meinel, Christoph,Polze, Andreas,Oswald, Gerhard,Strotmann, Rolf,Seibold, Ulrich,D'Errico, Doc

Together with industrial partners Hasso-Plattner-Institut (HPI) is currently establishing a “HPI Future SOC Lab,” which will provide a complete infrastructure for research on on-demand systems. The lab utilizes the latest, multi/many-core hardware and its practical implementation and testing as well as further development. The necessary components for such a highly ambitious project are provided by renowned companies: Fujitsu and Hewlett Packard provide their latest 4 and 8-way servers with 1-2 TB RAM, SAP will make available its latest Business byDesign (ByD) system in its most complete version. EMC² provides high performance storage systems and VMware offers virtualization solutions. The lab will operate on the basis of real data from large enterprises. The HPI Future SOC Lab, which will be open for use by interested researchers also from other universities, will provide an opportunity to study real-life complex systems and follow new ideas all the way to their practical implementation and testing. This technical report presents results of research projects executed in 2011. Selected projects have presented their results on June 15th and October 26th 2011 at the Future SOC Lab Day events.

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Stochastic Economics

Stochastic Processes, Control, and Programming

By: Gerhard Tintner,Jati K. Sengupta

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Stochastic Economics

Stochastic Processes, Control, and Programming

By: Gerhard Tintner,Jati K. Sengupta

Stochastic Economics: Stochastic Processes, Control, and Programming presents some aspects of economics from a stochastic or probabilistic point of view. The application of stochastic processes to the theory of economic development, stochastic control theory, and various aspects of stochastic programming is discussed. Comprised of four chapters, this book begins with a short survey of the stochastic view in economics, followed by a discussion on discrete and continuous stochastic models of economic development. The next chapter focuses on methods of stochastic control and their application to dynamic economic models, with emphasis on those aspects connected especially with the theory of quantitative economic policy. Some basic operational problems of applying stochastic control, particularly in economic systems and organizations for problems such as dynamic resource allocation, growth planning, and economic coordination are considered. The last chapter is devoted to stochastic programming, paying particular attention to the decision rule theory of operations research under the chance-constrained model and a method of incorporating reliability measures into a systems reliability model. This book will be of interest to economists, statisticians, applied mathematicians, operations researchers, and systems engineers.

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1483274020

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Ernst Specker Selecta

By: Gerhard Jäger,Hans Läuchli,Bruno Scarpellini,Volker Strassen

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Ernst Specker Selecta

By: Gerhard Jäger,Hans Läuchli,Bruno Scarpellini,Volker Strassen

Ernst Specker has made decisive contributions towards shaping direc tions in topology, algebra, mathematical logic, combinatorics and algorith mic over the last 40 years. We have derived great pleasure from marking his seventieth birthday by editing the majority of his scientific publications, and thus making his work available in a unified form to the mathematical community. In order to convey an idea of the richness of his personality, we have also included one of his sermons. Of course, the publication of these Selecta can pay tribute only to the writings of Ernst Specker. It cannot adequately express his originality and wisdom as a person nor the fascination he exercises over his students, colleagues and friends. We can do no better than to quote from Hao Wang in the 'Festschrift' Logic and Algorithmic I: Specker was ill for an extended period before completing his formal education. He had the leisure to think over many things. This experi ence may have helped cultivating his superiority as a person. In terms of traditional Chinese categories, I would say there is a taoist trait in him in the sense of being more detached, less competitive, and more under standing. I believe he has a better sense of what is important in life and arranges his life better than most logicians. We are grateful to Birkhauser Verlag for the production of this Selecta volume. Our special thanks go to Jonas Meon for sharing with us his intimate knowledge of his friend Ernst Specker.

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3034892594

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Stress and Deformation

A Handbook on Tensors in Geology

By: Gerhard Oertel

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Stress and Deformation

A Handbook on Tensors in Geology

By: Gerhard Oertel

Students of geology who may have only a modest background in mathematics need to become familiar with the theories of stress, strain, and other tensor quantities, so that they can follow, and apply to their own research, developments in modern, quantitative geology. This book, based on a course taught by the author at UCLA, can provide the proper introduction. Included throughout the eight chapters are 136 complex problems, advancing from vector algebra in standard and subscript notations, to the mathematical description of finite strain and its compounding and decomposition. Fully worked solutions to the problems make up the largest part of the book. With their help, students can monitor their progress, and geologists will be able to utilize subscript and matrix notations and formulate and solve tensor problems on their own. The book can be successfully used by anyone with some training in calculus and the rudiments of differential equations.

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Oxford University Press

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0195357361

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Biomaterials In Modern Medicine: The Groningen Perspective

By: Rutger J Ploeg,Gerhard Rakhorst

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Biomaterials In Modern Medicine: The Groningen Perspective

By: Rutger J Ploeg,Gerhard Rakhorst

This useful book is written from a medical perspective and is aimed at academics as well as medical and biomedical engineering students who want to become involved in the design, development, manufacturing or use of prostheses or medical devices. It covers basic information on the complexities of implant and medical device development. The design process, technology assessment, animal experiments, histocompatibility, tissue compatibility and infections are described. In addition, examples of biomaterial applications are presented, showing the diversity of biomaterials.This is the first book that guides the reader through the complicated process of medical product development. Different technical and medical aspects of medical implants are highlighted by a group of authors who are actively involved in biomaterial research at the University Medical Center of Groningen, one of the leading hospitals in The Netherlands.

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